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Description

The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) LEOLSTCMG30 version 2 Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) product provides Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived from the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite data record from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments as well as LST error estimates for both day and night. The MEaSUREs LEOLST product is generated by regridding the monthly CMG products from Aqua MODIS (MYD21C3) and VIIRS (VNP21C3 and VJ121).

The product is available on 0.25, 0.5, and 1 degree optimized climate grids with well characterized per-pixel uncertainties. A low-resolution browse is also available showing LST as an RGB (red, green, blue) image in PNG format.

Improvements/Changes from Previous Version

  • Corrected an issue with nighttime LST error estimates (LST_Nighterr*) in the one degree, half degree, and quarter degree SDS layers that were erroneously filled with zero values.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua,
NOAA-20,
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
MODIS,
VIIRS
Spatial Extent
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-08-01 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Month
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
c2786058899-lpcloud
Data State
ACTIVE
Processing Level
2
Published

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Hulley, G. (2023). Low Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Monthly Global Gridded V002 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/LSTE/LEOLSTCMG30.002 Date Accessed: 2025-07-20

Data Center Citation

Glynn Hulley. 2022. Low Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Monthly Global Gridded V002. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/LSTE/LEOLSTCMG30.002.

Documents

USER'S GUIDE The combined User Guide and Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document provides information related to using the data product along with a description of the physical and mathematical algorithms used in generating the data product.

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